Nationality American Siblings Jon Weisman Role Novelist | Name Greg Weisman Occupation Writer, producer | |
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Books Gargoyles #1, Star Wars: Kanan: The Last Padawan Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Movies and TV shows Similar People | ||
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Greg Weisman (born September 28, 1963) is an American novelist and comic book and animation writer and producer, best known as the co-creator and producer of Young Justice, the (uncredited) co-creator of Gargoyles, the Supervising Producer of The Spectacular Spider-Man. In addition, Weisman wrote the script for DC Showcase: Green Arrow, an animated short feature that is included on the DVD for the film, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. His first novel, Rain of the Ghosts was released on December 3, 2013. Its sequel, Spirits of Ash and Foam was released on July 8, 2014. Weisman was executive producer on the Star Wars Rebels animated series, alongside Dave Filoni and Simon Kinberg, but left the show after season one had been produced. He is currently producing, writing and directing a full-cast unabridged AudioPlay based on Rain of the Ghosts.
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- Greg weisman q a
- The making of rain of the ghosts with greg weisman brent spiner and marina sirtis
- Early career
- Animation
- Comic book work
- Rain of the Ghosts
- Other work
- References
The making of rain of the ghosts with greg weisman brent spiner and marina sirtis
Early career
Weisman is a former English composition and writing teacher and received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a Masters from USC. In between college and graduate school, Weisman worked on staff in the editorial department of DC Comics, while also co-writing Captain Atom with Cary Bates. During an interview done during Comic-Con International 2010, Weisman revealed that while 22 years old, he wrote a four issue mini-series for DC Comics starring the superheroine Black Canary. The first issue of the series was penciled, but the project was ultimately shelved due to the character being used in writer/artist Mike Grell's high-profile Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters series. Elements from the ill-fated project were used for his DC Showcase: Green Arrow short film.
Animation
After graduate school, Weisman worked as a development executive at Disney. While working at Disney, in conjunction with others, Weisman pitched an early comedy-adventure version of the TV series Gargoyles to Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Eventually, the Gargoyles series idea underwent a transformation from Weisman's initial conception as a largely comedic cartoon, to an episodic but sequential animated action-drama, and the series was produced for syndication. Though Gargoyles itself bears no on-air creator credit, Weisman describes himself on his website as "one of the creators" of the show. Aired as a syndicated show for 65 episodes, Gargoyles was later picked up for a further 13 episodes by ABC. Weisman was credited as a co-producer of Gargoyles from episode 6, and as a supervising producer for much of the show's second season. However, he has disassociated himself from the third-season episodes of Gargoyles—somewhat ironically, as the debut third-season episode for ABC bears Weisman's only writing credit of the entire series.
Weisman's other TV credits include overseeing the first season of Max Steel, the second season of W.I.T.C.H., as well as both seasons of The Spectacular Spider-Man and the two of Young Justice. Weisman has also written episodes for numerous animated series, including Men in Black: The Series, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, and Kim Possible, among many others. Weisman also voice directs and voice acts on occasion; he played the role of Donald Menken on The Spectacular Spider-Man and Lucas "Snapper" Carr on Young Justice.
He also directed the 2001 English dub localization of the 1991–1996 Japanese anime OVA series 3x3 Eyes. He used voice talents who previously worked with him on Gargoyles and other series. Homages to Gargoyles in the OVA series include a homeless man humming the Gargoyles theme song and a character who says "What could make claw marks in solid stone?"
Weisman is notable for the question and answer forum he participates in with Gargoyles fans online. On November 7, 2016, it was reported that Weisman would return in the upcoming revival season of Young Justice, alongside Brandon Vietti.
Comic book work
Weisman also continues to write for comics, including in continuity continuations of the storylines from the television series Gargoyles and Young Justice. (On the latter, Weisman, along with Kevin Hopps, became full-time writers of the tie-in comic as of issue #7 (as well as issue #0).). Weisman also wrote a parody of Gargoyles and Captain Atom in JLA Showcase #1.
Weisman wrote Star Wars: Kanan for Lucasfilm and Marvel Comics. From 2015 to 2016, Weisman wrote the superhero series, Starbrand & Nightmask, which lasted six issues.
Rain of the Ghosts
After leaving Disney in 1996, Weisman spent two years at DreamWorks, where he created and developed a new television series called Rain of the Ghosts. When the series was not picked up, Weisman bought the property back to turn it into a series of novels. The first book, also titled Rain of the Ghosts, came out in 2013. The second book, Spirits of Ash and Foam, followed in 2014. Weisman has announced that the third book will be titled Masque of Bones, but in the meantime he is currently working on a full-cast unabridged AudioPlay based on Rain of the Ghosts.
Other work
Weisman has written episodes for the following TV shows: